Lunatic Dawn 3
Lunatic Dawn III is a nonlinear sandbox RPG built around freely chosen delivery, extermination, escort, or smuggling jobs, with actions shifting Order, Chaos, Good, and Evil alignment. This catalogue entry evaluates the recorded original-platform release, including its period-specific controls, presentation, content structure, hardware limits, and intended mode of play.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.5 / 10
About this game
Lunatic Dawn III is a nonlinear sandbox RPG built around freely chosen delivery, extermination, escort, or smuggling jobs, with actions shifting Order, Chaos, Good, and Evil alignment. Open jobs, party growth, relationships, and alignment let players shape an adventurer's career, supporting different routes across new starts. Objectives, interface, and system feedback are obscure, Japanese and complex rules raise the barrier, and combat or travel becomes repetitive. Its freedom rests on rough presentation. This description covers the original ps1 release represented by this catalog entry and does not assume conveniences introduced by later ports. The assessment also treats period hardware limits, documented mechanics, original controls, and release-specific access as explicit evaluation boundaries.
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Lunatic Dawn III is a nonlinear sandbox RPG built around freely chosen delivery, extermination, escort, or smuggling jobs, with actions shifting Order, Chaos, Good, and Evil alignment.
Open jobs, party growth, relationships, and alignment let players shape an adventurer's career, supporting different routes across new starts. Objectives, interface, and system feedback are obscure, Japanese and complex rules raise the barrier, and combat or travel becomes repetitive. Its freedom rests on rough presentation. Overall, its main strengths are Open jobs, relationships, and alignment shape a career; Different starts and paths support replay freedom. Its material limitations are Obscure objectives, interface, and Japanese systems; Repeated combat and travel with rough presentation. This score covers the original platform release represented by this catalog record and excludes conveniences added by emulators or later ports. The conclusion also accounts for original hardware readability, input, and access conditions. Documented uncertainty remains explicit. The evidence supports this balance.
Strengths
- Open jobs, relationships, and alignment shape a career
- Different starts and paths support replay freedom
Weaknesses
- Obscure objectives, interface, and Japanese systems
- Repeated combat and travel with rough presentation
Who it is for: Players who value open jobs, relationships, and alignment shape a career and can accept the original release's limits.
Play notes: Before playing, expect obscure objectives, interface, and japanese systems and repeated combat and travel with rough presentation; this assessment covers the recorded original-platform release.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Different starts and paths support replay freedom; Repeated combat and travel with rough presentation. | Reviewed | 7.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Open jobs, relationships, and alignment shape a career; Obscure objectives, interface, and Japanese systems. | Reviewed | 8.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Different starts and paths support replay freedom; presentation is judged within the original platform conditions, with no bonus for age alone. | Reviewed | 7.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Judged on the original ps1 release's input, readability, saving, and accessory conditions. Obscure objectives, interface, and Japanese systems. | Reviewed | 5.8 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Artdink
- Publisher
- Artdink
- Release date
- 1998
- Platforms
- PlayStation
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- ReplayableBranching ChoicesTop-down2D GraphicsTurn-based CombatLevel ProgressionExplorationFantasy
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStationWorldwide1998
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